Penn State alumnus Andrew Ott, the chief executive officer and president of PJM Interconnection LLC, the largest power grid in North America, will be a keynote speaker at the 2019 Energy Days conference on May 29.
In May of 2018, environmental engineer Bruce Logan received funding from the provost’s office to launch “Energy 2100,” a multi-year initiative to harness Penn State’s vast and wide-ranging activity in the area of renewable energy research. The goal, Logan said, is to maximize the University’s contributions toward creation of a carbon-neutral global energy economy by the turn of the next century.
Daniel Kammen will be a featured guest at Energy Days, Penn State's annual conference that brings together professionals working in and with the energy sector, May 29-30.
A new seed grant program titled “Materials for Enhancing Energy and Environmental Stewardship" offers at least $500,000 in funding. The deadline for applying is 5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 22.
Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to submit proposals for seed grant funding that will support energy and environmental research conducted in Energy and Environmental Sustainability Laboratories (EESL) facilities.
The Institutes of Energy and the Environment (IEE) and the Department of Architectural Engineering will hold a meeting on high-performance buildings in connection with IEE’s 2018 seed grant call. The event will be held from 9 to 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 2, in 211 Keller Building.
The Institutes of Energy and the Environment announced the availability of seed grant funds focused on energy and the environment. The deadline for proposals is Nov. 7. An informational webinar is scheduled for Oct. 10.
Michael Jacobson, professor of forest resources in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, has been named the first Global Faculty Fellow in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.
The Penn State Facilities Engineering Institute has announced the results of its Department of General Services electricity shopping event, where the institute solicits the accounts of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania agencies for lower electricity supplier pricing. By comparing published utility company rates to bids from prospective suppliers, PSFEI enabled DGS to lock in lower rates for 214 accounts, spread across 19 agencies, for a total of more than $4 million in savings for the Commonwealth.
Penn State Greater Allegheny will begin to offer the third year of the Energy Engineering major beginning in Fall 2018. This will be the first 3+1 Energy Engineering program at any Penn State campus and will allow students to remain at Greater Allegheny through their junior year, moving to University Park to complete their final year of study.
Jennifer Baka, assistant professor in the department of geography, has been at Penn State for a little more than a year, but she has a lifetime of experience assessing the implications of energy. She grew up in a coal mining region of Northeastern Pennsylvania, and watching the relationship a rural community has with a global enterprise factored into her choice to become an energy geographer. It’s a field that combines political and industrial ecology to look at how energy projects impact all segments of society.
New research at Penn State addresses the impact delivery trucks have on the environment by providing green solutions that keep costs down without sacrificing efficiency.
Nuclear power is an important energy source in the U.S. and around the world and is essential as a clean energy to reduce current carbon emissions from fossil fuels. However, many people feel the risk of nuclear accidents does not outweigh the benefits associated with nuclear energy.
Students at Penn State Hazleton received a personal message from Russell Gold, author of the 2015-16 Penn State Reads book, “The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World.”
Penn State is poised to solidify its role as a cutting-edge leader among universities in driving the world’s conversation about the future of energy, President Eric Barron told the University’s Board of Trustees on Nov. 20. Barron highlighted a new initiative to marshal the University’s vast expertise in a wide range of disciplines with the goal of tackling the world’s energy challenges, improving national energy security and independence, and further strengthening Pennsylvania’s status as a national leader in energy production and innovation.
